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Senior Quantity Surveyor
June 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Senior Quantity Surveyor
Location: Flexible working available, where you will be based out of our Loughton office with home working available and some travel to other offices and sites across London 3+ days a week
Business Area: Kier Places - Housing Maintenance
Contract & hours: Permanent, full time, Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week
Kier Places are recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Housing Maintenance division, to uphold and maintain the commercial wellbeing of our contracts, to reduce cost, increase value, drive revenue/profits, mitigate against risk in a safe and ethical manner, and to become a key member of the FRA & Compliance Planned Maintenance & Responsive Repairs Maintenance team who deliver essential fire safety and key compliance planned maintenance works as well as responsive repairs maintenance works across a variety of contracts.
You will be involved in looking after a growing portfolio of contracts that includes London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham (LBHF), Borough of Hounslow, Soho Housing, London & Quadrant (L&Q) Housing Association, and Grainger Trust, with the opportunity to support future contracts & grow within this dynamic team.
Key Responsibilities
As a trusted and focused Senior Quantity Surveyor, your role will be key to supporting the Commercial Manager through ownership of Value Cost Reconciliations (VCR/CVR); develop and manage all commercial aspects of projects including budgets and forecasts to ensure the governance and profitability of allocated contracts; develop, manage and extend commercial relationships with both new and existing clients and supply chain; maximise profitability of all allocated contracts and work packages; and provide accurate commercial reporting to allow effective management of your projects, whilst identifying any areas of risk and mitigation.
These contracts include works for maintaining and upgrading fire safety systems (i.e. fire stopping works, fire alarms, doors & sprinkler systems), kitchen & bathroom replacements, refurbishment of voids & occupied properties, and day-to-day repairs such as gas, boiler, plumbing & heating systems, carpentry, fabric & decorative repairs, and other general home repairs.
What do we need from you?
Is this your opportunity for the taking? To be a Senior Quantity Surveyor with Kier Housing Maintenance, you should have strong experience with building & maintaining relationships with clients and subcontractors; strong knowledge of the VCR/CVR & overall QS process; good knowledge of Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) and/or National Housing Federation (NHF) schedule of rates; the ability to give reliable forecasting & valuations; and the ability to give value for money without compromising Health & Safety and customer satisfaction across the contracts.
Ideally, you'll have experience with planned maintenance, reactive maintenance or responsive repair contracts within the housing maintenance, social housing, decent homes or property maintenance sector.
Who are we?
Kier Housing Maintenance (HM) have long standing partnership agreements with housing associations, local authorities and private landlords to conduct responsive repairs and planned maintenance across various sites. Our commitment to our clients has resulted in us being shortlisted for Contractor of the Year at the UK Housing Awards 2020.
At Kier, we're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.
You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a company car or allowance, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan).
Some of our other benefits include:
- New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer
- Kier's Green Car Scheme
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, as well as 4x Life Assurance as standard, with the option for Partner Life Assurance cover
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look here to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk.
Closing Date: 7 July 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.